constituent

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Nasdaq said updates aren’t expected to impact constituent or weighting changes until the next index rebalancing, scheduled for June 22.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

DHS was and is less than the sum of its constituent parts.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

The German DAX slipped 0.15% as the index’s second largest constituent, Siemens, nudged down 0.3% after falling 6.4% Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

Gwynne was sacked as a health minister and suspended from Labour last year after the Mail on Sunday published some of his private messages, including one disparaging an elderly constituent.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2026

“Life...is a chemical incident,” Paul Ehrlich, the chemist, had once said, and biochemists, true to form, had begun to break open cells and characterize the constituent “living chemicals” into classes and functions.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee